Don’t Let WikiLeaks Scare You Off of Signal and Other Encrypted Chat Apps Wired Top Stories by Brian Barrett Despite some initial confusion, the CIA hasn’t undermined Signal and other important... Read more

Apple vs. Google company structure, as seen through patents FlowingData » Visualization by Nathan Yau For Co.Design, Periscopic compared patent ownership between Apple and Google, which ends up providing a good... Read more

Wikileaks considers exposing verified Twitter users’ data The Social Software Weblog WikiLeaks once claimed to stand for the people against the shadowy, truth-occluding governments of the world (primarily, the United... Read more

Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Germany’s DEAL project, which includes over 60 major research institutions, has... Read more

KickassTorrents ex-staffers brought the torrent site back from the dead The Next Web by Mix Back in July, millions of pirates got their hearts broken when their go-to torrent site KickassTorrents suddenly shut... Read more

Those “final messages” from Aleppo Syria look more like a coordinated social media campaign than a cry for [email protected] pic.twitter.com/GzASdXPwNU — IN THE NOW (@IntheNow_tweet) 14 Aralık 2016 Trump meets... Read more

Obama orders review of pre-election cyber attacks Mashable! by Gianluca Mezzofiore President Barack Obama has ordered a full review of cyber attacks and other hacking-related activities into the 2016 presidential... Read more

Download this new guide to approaching social sources for journalists First Draft News by Alastair Reid Two weeks ago the movie Sully opened, a dramatic recreation of the circumstances surrounding Flight... Read more

Turkey slams Germany’s Spiegel over ‘provocative’ edition Turkey on Sept. 14 angrily criticized leading German news magazine Der Spiegel for a special edition that called President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “a dictator,”... Read more

How SMART News Agency is telling stories from Syria in virtual reality Journalism.co.uk ‘We are doing VR also for credibility, because you let the viewer be the witness inside Syria’ Inside Infomagical,... Read more